Is accountability possible for Amir Locke's killing?
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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Why prosecutors decided not to charge Minneapolis police officer Mark Hanneman in the killing of Amir Locke. Plus, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson gets confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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On Wednesday, prosecutors announced they would not be filing charges against a Minneapolis police officer in the killing of Amir Locke during a predawn no-knock raid in February.
In a statement on Wednesday, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said they could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Officer Mark Hanneman, who fatally shot 22-year-old Locke, had violated the state’s use-of-deadly-force statute.
Reporter Holly Bailey unpacks the decision not to charge Hanneman, and explains how it has deepened the distrust between the Minneapolis police and the community it is intended to serve.
Plus, on Thursday, the Senate confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court. She is expected to be sworn in this summer when Justice Stephen G. Breyer retires.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Martine. |
| 0:03.4 | Before we start today's show, I wanted to take a second to introduce someone that you're |
| 0:08.0 | going to hear a little bit more in the future. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, Alahe. |
| 0:11.6 | Hey, Martine. |
| 0:13.4 | So this is my colleague and friend, Alahe Zadi, and she will be hosting some episodes at |
| 0:18.7 | post reports in the coming weeks. |
| 0:20.7 | We are very excited to have her. |
| 0:22.7 | I am very excited to have her. |
| 0:24.7 | I think at the stage of the pandemic, we can be honest that burnout is a real thing, and |
| 0:29.6 | I'm so grateful to have someone to share a little bit of the load with, to work on |
| 0:33.3 | some of my own longer term stories, and also to hear some of Alahe's stories. |
| 0:38.0 | So Alahe, thank you for being here. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, I'm really happy to be here. |
| 0:42.6 | I'm normally a media reporter, and so I spend a lot of my time interviewing journalists. |
| 0:48.3 | So I'm excited to be doing that in your seat and to hear about all the stories going |
| 0:54.2 | on around the country, around the world, I love asking reporters questions. |
| 0:59.8 | I love to hear that. |
| 1:00.8 | That's my favorite thing about this job. |
| 1:02.6 | So you're going to love it. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.6 | So Alahe, I would love to hear a little bit more about the story that we're going to |
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